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Professorin Dr. Sabrina Jeworrek

Professorin Dr. Sabrina Jeworrek
Aktuelle Position

seit 12/23

Stellvertretende Leiterin der Abteilung Gesetzgebung, Regulierung und Faktormärkte

Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

seit 12/23

Professorin für Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

seit 7/17

Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Verhalten in Organisationen und Unternehmenserfolg

Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

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Forschungsschwerpunkte
  • Verhaltens- und Experimentalökonomik
  • empirische Personal- und Arbeitsmarktökonomik
  • nicht-monetäre Anreizsysteme und Mitarbeitermotivation

Sabrina Jeworrek ist seit Dezember 2023 Professorin für Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management an der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Seit Oktober 2016 ist sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am IWH tätig, zunächst in der Abteilung Strukturwandel und Produktivität und seit Dezember 2023 als stellvertretende Leiterin der Abteilung Gesetzgebung, Regulierung und Faktormärkte. Seit Juli 2017 ist sie EconBiz-Beiratsmitglied. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Verhaltensökonomie und Mitarbeitermotivation.

Sabrina Jeworrek studierte an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Anschließend arbeitete sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Union (IAAEU) der Universität Trier und promovierte dort.

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Publikationen

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Feeling Obliged to Follow: The Impact of Work-Related Identity on Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior and the Role of Psychological Empowering

Sabrina Jeworrek Christoph Ostermaier Joschka Waibel

in: Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, im Erscheinen

Abstract

This study examines why people engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) by focusing on an overlooked mechanism: the mere fact of being a subordinate at the workplace. To establish a causal relationship, we conducted an online experiment with 615 full-time employees. We primed participants with private versus work-related contexts before instructing them to follow a rule that was beneficial for the organization but potentially unethical. We find that individuals high in power distance orientation engage to a greater extent in UPB after being primed on their work-related identity. Our results further emphasize that empowering leadership can mitigate this effect: For participants high in power distance, empowering messages eliminated the priming effect; their UPB levels matched those in the private control group. Thus, our study makes three key contributions: First, we add to the discussion of UPB antecedents. Second, we identify organizations that may be particularly vulnerable. Third, we point to strategies that could reduce UPB.

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Inflation Concerns and Green Product Consumption: Evidence From a Nationwide Survey and a Framed Field Experiment

Sabrina Jeworrek Lena Tonzer

in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 248 (August), 2026

Abstract

Promoting green (usually more costly) product consumption is one essential element in building a sustainable society. In times of high inflation, not only budget constraints but also the fear that prices will continue to rise might limit the effectiveness of exerted efforts to promote sustainable behaviors. To test this suggestion, we conducted a Germany-wide survey with almost 1200 respondents, followed by a framed field experiment to confirm causality. Our proxy for green consumption is organic food purchases. Survey respondents’ stated organic purchasing behavior is positively correlated with concerns about climate change but negatively correlated with concerns about inflation. The latter result is driven by individuals with a below-median environmental attitude. In the framed field experiment, we use the priming method to manipulate the saliency of inflation concerns. Whereas sizably relaxing the budget constraint has no impact on the share of organic products in participants’ baskets, the priming significantly decreases the share of organic products for individuals with below-median environmental attitude. Using the same inflation priming in a subsequent survey experiment with around 1800 respondents, we find that high inflationary environments affect both the perception of organic being luxury products and the social norm of buying organic. Both effects are more pronounced for individuals with below-median environmental attitude and, hence, they are the likely mechanisms driving the negative effects on organic product consumption.

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Inflation Concerns and Financial Stress

Sabrina Jeworrek Lena Tonzer

in: Economics Letters, Vol. 254 (August), 2025

Abstract

We provide evidence for a psychological component of inflation concerns. Higher inflation concerns relate in a positive and significant way to respondents’ reported levels of concerns about their financial situation. Results hold when controlling for income and financial constraints.

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Where to Go? High-skilled Individuals’ Regional Preferences

Sabrina Jeworrek Matthias Brachert

in: IWH Discussion Papers, Nr. 27, 2022

Abstract

We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how the location of a firm in a rural or urban region affects job attractiveness and contributes to the spatial sorting of university students and graduates. We characterize the attractiveness of a location based on several dimensions (social life, public infrastructure, connectivity) and combine this information with an urban or rural attribution. We also vary job design as well as contractual characteristics of the job. We find that job offers from companies in rural areas are generally considered less attractive. This is true regardless of the attractiveness of the region. The negative perception is particularly pronounced among persons with urban origin and singles. These persons rate job offers from rural regions significantly worse. In contrast, high-skilled individuals who originate from rural areas as well as individuals with partners and kids have no specific preference for jobs in urban or rural areas.

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Alone at Home: The Impact of Social Distancing on Norm-consistent Behavior

Sabrina Jeworrek Joschka Waibel

in: IWH Discussion Papers, Nr. 8, 2021

Abstract

Around the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned daily live upside down since social distancing is probably the most effective means of containing the virus until herd immunity is reached. Social norms have been shown to be an important determinant of social distancing behaviors. By conducting two experiments and using the priming method to manipulate social isolation recollections, we study whether social distancing has in turn affected norms of prosociality and norm compliance. The normative expectations of what behaviors others would approve or disapprove in our experimental setting did not change. Looking at actual behavior, however, we find that persistent social distancing indeed caused a decline in prosociality – even after the relaxation of social distancing rules and in times of optimism. At the same time, our results contain some good news since subjects seem still to care for norms and become more prosocial once again after we draw their attention to the empirical norm of how others have previously behaved in a similar situation.

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